Surge Guards, to buy or not to buy
Ok how many folks out there have surge guards, and how many wish they had bought one. I got some fathers day money for camping world and I am looking at Surge Guards . In walking around the camp gro...
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We have a 30 amp Progressive Industries surge protector. We paid around $80 for it on Amazon. As I understand it, there are two options in the portable units for both the 30 amp and the 50 amp. The cheaper one like we have is basically a "surge protector". It will protect our electronics from a voltage spike typical in a lightening strike for example but will not protect from low voltages or high voltage conditions where the voltage rises slowly. The more expensive version has the LCD display and does protect all of the above scenarios. These are commonly called "Voltage Management Devices", not just a surge protectors.
